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Five United States Naval Academy graduates were honored Friday during the 25th Annual Distinguished Graduate Award ceremony at Alumni Hall.

The awardees include a best-selling author, the second Black four-star admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy, two business executives and the first Black vice chairman of the Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees, who when working for the Ford Motor Company helped name the Ford Expedition.

Retired Navy Adm. Cecil Eugene Diggs Haney discusses his military career and how his journey has opened up opportunities for young Black submarine officers.

That exhortation from playwright Arthur Miller’s masterwork, Death of a Salesman, is one of the most famous lines in the American theater, and it immediately came to mind when I learned that a naval officer of singular distinction, Commander William F. Bundy, USN (Ret.), a member of “The Centennial Seven,” had suddenly passed away on 15 December 2019. In that spirit, I headed north on a sunny December day a little over a year ago to attend a funeral with full military honors. Driving from northern Manhattan to Rhode Island takes about four hours, plenty of time to retrace the extraordi...